Brooklyn-born Sister Mercedes Torres grew up in Catholicism, but she still had a conversion to the faith. Not in the same way people leave a denomination to become Roman Catholic. Her conversion was one of “the heart,” and it was made specifically to Jesus Christ.
Catholics from churches all over the Diocese of Brooklyn who braved the cold and snow to participate in the March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19 returned home saying that the experience brought them closer to their faith.
Watching her son Noah shuffle across the living room floor, iPad in hand and grinning ear to ear, Yamileth Johnson cannot imagine not having the nearly 6-year-old boy in her life.
A dozen people from the Witness for Life: Brooklyn recently returned to pray the rosary outside Planned Parenthood offices on Court Street. It’s a commitment they uphold on the second Saturday morning of each month.
On the ninth floor of a towering office building steps from Brooklyn Borough Hall, a team of nurses is trying to do what many deem impossible in New York City — “erase the need for abortion.”
As Christine Darby watches her daughter Gemma, 3, happily playing on her iPad in the living room of their Nassau County home on a recent morning, her heart is filled with a mother’s love.
Ryan Curran was a sophomore at Archbishop Molloy High School in 2019 when he noticed that while the school had numerous clubs and extracurricular activities, there was nothing for students like him, who are hard of hearing.
Joe and Janet Bova have been married for 43 years and like most couples who have been together for a long time, they can finish each other’s sentences and can communicate with just a glance.
ASTORIA — Parishioners of St. Joseph Church in Astoria like to joke that they can set their watches by Father Edward Cassar, a kindly retired priest in residence at their parish. He’s that precise.
Working in the pro-life movement isn’t kid’s stuff. No one knows that better than a small group of parishioners at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Windsor Terrace, who are working at the grassroots level to promote the sanctity of life.
